📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of September 20, 2025

📅 Murli sentence of September 20, 2025

📜 Hindi

यहाँ भी अच्छे स्वभाव वाले को कहा जाता है - यह तो जैसे देवता है।

🔤 Transliteration

yahā̃ bhī acche svabhāv vāle ko kahā jātā hai – yah to jaise devatā hai.

💬 Translation

Here too, it is said of someone with a good nature: “This one is like a deity.”

📚 Vocabulary

⚙️Grammar

  1. Qualifier with -वाला (-vālā)
    1. स्वभाव वाला = “the one who has a certain nature.”
    2. अच्छे स्वभाव वाले = “the one with a good nature.”
  2. Use of को (ko)
    1. अच्छे स्वभाव वाले को कहा जाता है = “it is said of the one with a good nature.”
  3. Impersonal passive
    1. कहा जाता है is a common construction meaning “it is said” (without specifying who says it).
  4. Comparison with जैसे (jaise)
    1. यह तो जैसे देवता है = “This one is like a deity.”
    2. तो adds emphasis, as in “indeed” or “actually.”

🪔 Cultural note

In Indian culture, calling someone a देवता (devatā) doesn’t mean they are literally seen as a god. It highlights virtues such as kindness, purity, generosity, or nobility of character. A person with these qualities is “godlike” in the sense of being close to an ideal of goodness.

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Definitions

अच्छा achchhā (hindi)

Good.
Well.
All right, well done.
So long.

भी bhī (hindi)

Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.

देवता dēvtā (sanskrit)

A god, deity, divine being. (does not apply to God)

होना hōnā (hindi)

To be.
To happen, to occur.
To exist.
To be born.

जैसा jaisā (hindi)

Similar to, like, resembling, as, such as.

जाना jānā (hindi)

To go, to depart, to lose, to flow.

कहना kahnā (hindi)

Say.

को kō (hindi)

को is used for denoting:

स्वभाव svabhāv (sanskrit)

In the murlis, the soul’s nature or habitual disposition, expressed in reactions, speech and relationships, often associated with sanskars. It can be transformed: the teaching encourages leaving harmful old traits behind and developing a sweet, peaceful nature like the Father’s. One passage also reinterprets स्वभाव as soul-conscious feelings towards oneself and everyone else.

तो tō (hindi)

Then, therefore, moreover.
An emphatic particle (e.g. मैं तो जाऊँगा).
At any rate, however, at least.

वाला vālā (hindi)

A suffix denoting an agent, doer, owner, possessor, keeper or inhabitant : the one of, the one with, the one who.

यह yah (hindi)

3rd person personal pronoun, demonstrative pronoun or determiner in a close context : he, she, this (also they, these).

यहाँ yahā̃ (hindi)

Here, hither, in/at this place.

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